Poor health outcomes for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are apparent when comparing their health indicators against the rest of the U.S.
population.

The Disability and Health Program (DHP) is funded by a three-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The goals of the program are to include Floridians of all ages with disabilities in all of the Department
of Health's programs and activities for health promotion, disease prevention, wellness, and disaster preparedness.

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Influenza or 'flu' is a viral respiratory illness, mainly spread by droplets made when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk. Influenza can cause mild to severe illness.
Serious outcomes of flu infection are hospitalization or death. Florida is currently experiencing a moderately severe influenza season. The best way to protect yourself from flu is to get vaccinated, practice good hand washing hygiene, and stay home/keep children home when sick. To find a vaccine, please visit www.floridahealth.gov/findaflushot.

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Threat Alert System

The Florida Association of the Deaf (FAD) Emergency list is an alert system to warn Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened and Deaf-Blind Floridians of hazardous weather such as hurricane or other disasters. You may use your pager email address for fastest response versus your pc email address. FAD is not responsible for failed message due to some pagers not receiving message. The emergency list will always be text based to ensure message will be compatible to all devices.

It is open to everyone. No email address is shared with third parties. FAD respects the rights to privacy.

People who want to sign up for the emergency alert system can go to the FAD website at www.fadcentral.org and sign up for the FAD e-zine.

Emergency Preparedness

Do you know how to keep yourself and your family safe in an emergency? Florida's Department of Emergency Management has captioned and signed several excellent emergency preparedness videos on the State's website www.floridadisaster.org . We wish to thank Florida's Department of Emergency Management for giving us permission to provide a link to these very valuable videos. Remember, government cannot do everything to keep you safe. You must prepare, as well.

The Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission (IDHHC) has released the video “Emergency Preparedness: Together We Prepare.” The video is shown in American Sign Language and is fully captioned. Its purpose is to provide instruction to individuals and families in all 50 states on how to prepare for a natural disaster. We want to thank the Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for giving us permission to post a link to this important video, which provides access to crucial information for the deaf and hard of hearing community, on our website.